Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

Make friends before you need them

You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

10.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Storey, David

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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Owens, Jesse

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.

Crane, Frank

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A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

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There is no friend as loyal as a book

Hemingway, Ernest

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Lawes, Lewis E.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

Mansfield, Katherine

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Bennett, Arnold

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

Washington, George

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There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

Young, Brigham

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Gracian, Baltasar

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Dickens, Charles

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.

Proverb, English

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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Wycherley, William

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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.

Randall, Erwin T.

41.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.

Tate, Nahum

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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing...

White, Elwyn Brooks

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is a priceless treasure never to be bought or sold -- it can only be cherished.